Milter-greylist

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 07:03:14PM +0100, manu@... wrote:
> Petar Bogdanovic <petar@...> wrote:
> 
> > a few hours ago milter-greylist died on one of our servers:
> > 
> >       milter-greylist: spamd socket failed: Too many open files
> >       milter-greylist: ACL evaluation failure
> >       milter-greylist: mkstemp("/var/milter/mgrey.db-000098ss") failed:
> Too many open files
> > 
> > I raised the limits but I'd still like to know if milter-greylist is
> > really supposed to die in such a case?
> 
> milter-greylist is in the situation where the database cannot be dumped.
> Shall we ignore that?

If you let the daemon live he could recover as soon as some fds are
available again (the situation described above happened during a pretty
busy hour). It's a suboptimal configuration but the ability to dump the
database does not seem critical to me.


> > Also, I saw this after starting milter-greylist again: 
> >       milter-greylist: unknown token ":" line 19202, skipping 
> >       milter-greylist: dump error at line 19202: syntax error 
> (...)
> > The problem were some sender-addresses like `ab@cd@...'.
> 
> The dump file parser is more strict that the code that stores tuples, so
> some tuple are rejected on reload. This is harmless.

Ok, thanks.